US threats to attack North Korea center on the idea that North Korea poses a direct threat to the US mainland, with the notion that a preemptive attack would be launched to prevent North Korea nuking American cities.
This “threat” grew with a new assessment that North Korea has miniaturized its warheads to mount on a missile. This assessment, however, seems to have glossed over the many questions about North Korea’s ICBM technology, which experts continue to say are unanswered.
North Korea’s two recent ICBM tests bot made these problems with their technology glaringly obvious. North Korea has no guidance technology to steer missiles fired over long range, and more importantly have no reentry technology to allow ICBM’s to fly long range without breaking up.
This all boils down to North Korea conceivably having a missile that could fly a long range, not aimed, with a possible nuclear warhead on board, but probably couldn’t deliver it to any specific target anywhere in the world, let alone ensure the warhead survives the trip.
Countries that possess ICBMs have tested them long range over mostly the Pacific. No such test has ever been carried out by North Korea. The American war rhetoric in my view is mainly aimed at fuelling the American war industry, the Industrial Military Complex. Orders for bombs, planes, missiles are soaring right now. America has a war economy which needs to be a bit stimulating now and then. That’s what it is all about.
I couldn’t agree more. Countries that possess ICBMs (namely, China and Russia) have, indeed, tested them long range over the Pacific, but no such tests have ever been carried out by the DPRK. I agree, the US war rhetoric is mainly aimed at fueling the American war industry, the Industrial Military Complex .. And as you said, orders for bombs, planes and missiles are currently soaring. The US has a war economy which needs to be a bit stimulating now and then .. That’s what it’s all about.
There’s a huge problem with this, however. A war economy isn’t a stable one. This is what broke up the USSR after 70 years of such an economy .. It’s simply unsustainable. The US, since G. W. Bush, has been ignoring its domestic economy and emulating that of the former USSR, hence, USSA.